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Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf
Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conference has a mission to provide spiritual renewal in a recreational setting emphasizing Bible teaching and worldwide missions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $328,589 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $337,981 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,392 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| One Way Ministries | $82,915 |
| Slavic Gospel Association | $51,577 |
| Reach Beyond | $39,996 |
| LifeBUILDERS | $32,742 |
| Send International | $29,509 |
| Keys for Kids Ministries | $27,833 |
| Our Daily Bread Ministries | $26,561 |
| Alive on the Lakeshore | $21,355 |
| Moody Bible Institute | $11,101 |
| Joni and Friends | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MEMISSION EURASIA2× · 2019–2022 · $127k · revenue +160%
- TTACTICA3× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +251% · 82% of their budget
- HMHUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC2× · 2018–2022 · $98k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- AGAlpha Grand Rapidsgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +76%
- KFKeys for Kids Ministries Incone grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +19%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue +49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Eurasia and the most unlike its peers is Mona Lake Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds TACTICA ↗
- Who funds HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Good News Nepal ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds ONE WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WORLD RADIO MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds WALK THRU THE BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Keys for Kids Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LifeBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds Grand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds SONSET SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Our Daily Bread Ministries Trust ↗
- Who funds ALIVE ON THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds MONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gordon Christian Trust · The Bolick Foundation · Servant Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Tyndale House Ministries · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Drew and Colleen Wolford Foundation · The Modglin Family Foundation · From His Hand Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maranatha Bible and Missionary Conf funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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